“Nag Ashwin couldn’t have made it clearer that Nadigaiyar Thilagam deems Savitri to be an angel descended from above, and a hapless victim of her circumstances. She’s shown to be a munificent spirit who can scarcely come to terms with the dark world she’s inhabiting — one full of ungrateful people and opportunists.”
Category: Film Reviews
Iruttu Arayil Murattu Kuththu: An uninventive adult comedy that mistakes sexual references for humour
“Simply because it’s an adult film, a woman walks around with a shirt captioned ‘orgasm’. Men walk around with underwear that bear the image of a banana. It’s a mark of deep sexual repression in our society that the theatre resounded with laughter at these silly references.”
Diya: A dull pamphlet film that argues against abortion
“Having an aborted foetus turning ghost is quite something. Perhaps not too far away in the distant, dark future, we will probably have embryos and zygotes turning ghosts too.”
Truth or Dare: Dull, sterile imagining of a fun premise
“It’s almost as if noone behind its making realised that any efforts to solemnify this inherently mad material, would only be futile.”
Mercury: A worthy experiment with some memorable stretches of filmmaking
Towards the end, the actual version of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata takes centrestage. It’s quite appropriate not just because one of the characters is a self-confessed Beethoven fan, but because the story in a sense is actually Moonlight Sonata.
Sudhir Srinivasan 